Snow
Patrol
are an alternative rock
band from Northern Ireland. Formed at the University of Dundee in 1994,
the band is now based in Glasgow.

Snow Patrol rose to national fame with their major label debut, Final
Straw, in 2003. The album was
certified 5x platinum in the UK and
eventually sold over 4 million copies worldwide. Their next studio
album, Eyes
Open, (2006) propelled the band
to greater international fame. The
album topped the UK Album Charts and was the best-selling British album
of the year, selling over 5 million copies worldwide. In 2008, the band
released their fifth studio album A
Hundred Million Suns and in 2009
their first compilation album, Up
to Now.